I wore my Charr t-shirt from Penny Arcade on Saturday, hehe. And my stuffed Charr sits behind my desk at home. And now my giant Charr statue sits to the left of my monitor, next to Nathan Drake and Claptrap.

I'm at the install/download screen, didn't realize we couldn't actually install yet. Figured they let everyone download pre release but wouldn't let us log into servers yet. Damn, they are going to take a huge hit in 2 hours.

Acleacius wrote on Aug 24, 2012, 23:03:Anyone know if there is a good racial match for each the Necro, Elementalist and Mesmer? The wiki site has crashed and the main page isn't showing any details I can find.

Thanks for any tips.

Considering the whole Foefire/Ghosts of Ascalon thing, I personally think Humans are a great fit for the Necromancer. The only other lore I can remember offhand is that the Charr generally distrust magic, except for the Flame Legion, which happens to be fighting the rest of the Charr.

As Bucky has said, guilds can span across multiple worlds and even better, you can temporarily Guest visit to a friend's server to play with them or vise versa (party up with them and right click to get the option). Although I have heard that it won't be available right away on the launch date but it will be in soonish (was working in the early stress tests but was kind of broken in the later ones).

Also keep in mind that ArenaNet has said that there will be free server transfers for the first few days on launch so that people can find a world server that suits them.

The only thing that picking a world server is mainly for is World vs World (vs World). If your friends aren't in the same world as you, you can't participate in WvWvW with them.

Since you can join multiple guilds, I'd definitely be interested in joining a Blues one for GW2.

Dades wrote on Aug 18, 2012, 16:05:With a heavy emphasis on PvP in Guild Wars 2 I don't want to be worrying about stuff like that.

I've been trying to avoid all the media but damn is that right, it's design is heavily pvp? I thought their design was based more on updating Coop play. Sadly, a pvp design would mean a no sale for me and I was really looking forward to checking this out.

I think that's mistaken perception of the game. It has a strong focus on story and PvE as well as PvP and WvW. GW2 is really whatever you want it to be. I personally have little interest in any of the PvP aspects of the game, though I'll probably try them out at some point. I'm getting GW2 for the story, the exploration, and the community PvE that I've never seen in another game.

Dades wrote on Aug 18, 2012, 16:05:With a heavy emphasis on PvP in Guild Wars 2 I don't want to be worrying about stuff like that.

I've been trying to avoid all the media but damn is that right, it's design is heavily pvp? I thought their design was based more on updating Coop play. Sadly, a pvp design would mean a no sale for me and I was really looking forward to checking this out.

Dades wrote on Aug 18, 2012, 16:05:Going to avoid an RP experience here, people tend to have all sorts of weird rules about speaking in character and etc. With a heavy emphasis on PvP in Guild Wars 2 I don't want to be worrying about stuff like that. Several of the big guilds from WOW are settling on Maguuma which is where I'll probably end up.

There are no official RP servers so there are no rules. We can post char names and servers here later so anyone on the same servers can join up.